Turns out we haven't got one, it just upscales.

I'm actually tempted by that!

I forsee it dropping by another few pounds as well. It's effectively obsolete technology. The key is waiting for it to come down enough, before they compeltely pull it from the site. Of course, as a web based seller, it's not like it's taking up shelf space. They might as well keep advertising it till the warehouse is empty.

It's the up-scaling conventional DVDs that appeals to me, I wouldn't be buying it to buy up cheap HD DVD disks.

If I needed a new DVD player at the moment I'd buy it no question, as I don't want to spend the current asking price for Blu-Ray, and this would be a good stop gap until Blu-Ray prices drop.

As things stand though, I can't really justify it.

News on two TV detectives:

'Monk' to return for seventh season.

Yay!

David Suchet to quit as 'Poirot'.

Boo!

If that is true, I'm a bit disappointed, as Suchet has previously stated he wanted to film all of the Poirot stories - I'd have liked to have seen his stab [ho-ho] at Murder on the Orient Express.

My television is old enough not to support 1080p, but the Toshiba player I've got, the HD-A3 (which only goes up to 1080i, anyway), looks marvelous even at 720p. If you want a good upscaler, I'm certainly impressed with the results, as are many of the Amazon reviews, by the look of it.

Everything looked slightly fuzzy on my old, standard DVD player, but now most things I throw at my TV are crystal-clear. Obviously, that doesn't necessarily extend to horrendously-transferred films, but most DVDs I've watched have been very sharp.

And perhaps Michael Bay was suggesting Transformers fans may not own an HD-DVD player, but quite possibly own a Playstation 3...

Machine Guns Images Edited Out Of U.S. Indy Trailer

Finally, a reason to read AICN.

Double Yay!

I still have some catching up to do though - I've only gotten as far as Season Three. Are the next three seasons at the same level of quality?

I've only seen what they have shown on the Beeb (which I think is up to the end of series four), but what I've seen has been pretty much the same fare as the other seasons.

To my mind it's one of those shows that trundles along churning out good, solid, entertaining - but not great - TV.

Aye, I'd go along with that. It's a little too light-hearted and family-oriented to become especially deep and truly interesting, but it's good fun.

Doesn't happen very often, but I literally cannot think of what to say about this.

Words truly fail me. I know Wife Swap deliberately picks people who are a bit odd or 2 families who are going to have problems together, but...

This just in.... sorry, Sarah. Jimmy is f***ing Ben Affleck.

Make no mistake, folks, THAT was the highlight of Oscar night right there.

That's brilliant in innumerable ways.

Awesome.

Phew! For a second there I thought my secret was out. Thank God for that.

Very funny.

Fourth Bourne movie announced

and

Odeon refuses to show 'Rambo'.

Fair enough, it looks sh*te anyway!

Hopefully they'll answer the most pertinent question, why he stopped the killing.

I hope they get Tony Gilroy back to write it, assuming he's not busy with other projects.

TV's top 25 put-downs published.

It's a bit of a random list, but I do like the Perry Cox quote!

Very random indeed.

Dammit... I was just about to post that...

It was random, and I don't think the Blackadder put down was the best one of all 4 seasons...

I'm Fucking Seth Rogan*







*Please note that the lack of asterixes in the word "fucking" is an indication that this video will not have swearing beeped out...

You know, it's really an example of where less is more, too - the bleepings are actually funnier. Same reason why I had a feeling Arrested Development wouldn't have worked as well on Showtime where they could get away with it all...

I now always try to position either a cup, a ventriloquist dummy or another person's (preferrably Ed Begley Jr.'s) head in the way every time I drop an f-bomb.

Dave Gorman Book Reading Tour

The end of Paris Hilton's movie career?

Actually I very much doubt it. But considering that it is a "star vehicle" for someone who apparentley is very popular, and has a budget of $9m to recoup, this is a bit of a disaster.

Oh, and from what I've read, the plot sounds rather reprehensible. So much so, it might be worth a watching.

And then it hits him: June needs a makeover. But as Nate and June become friends and she emerges from her cocoon, Nate slowly realizes that the girl of his dreams isn’t the hottie at all. It’s the nottie — who turns out to be something of a hottie herself.

That's the less detailed plot line. What seems to be missing is that what on the face of it seems to be a story about beauty only being skin deep, is actually a story of beauty is only skin deep, but some cosmetic surgery and a make-over does help.

Did you check out the trailer?

That movie looks pure car crash.

I'm embarrassed even to read the title.

Hitchhiker’s cast reunite.

I would really like to go to this, the original radio series is still the best version of Hitchhikers in my opinion!

Man With No Name Comic Coming in May

Renewed: 'Supernatural', 'Smallville' and more.

Smallville get's an 8th season?! Not a bad thing at all, but just how long is it going to run?! Tom Welling's over 30 now, isn't he?!

Patrick Swayze given 5 weeks to live

Very sad.

You make an interesting point.

I couldn't fine a Watchmen thread, although I was sure there was one. Sop I'll post it here and a mod can move in necassary.

Pictures of the Watchmen characters.

Personally I think they all look a bit Hollywood-ised. And Ozymandius looks like a skinny pale child rather than an athletic bronzed adonis.

I think they look ok. They were always going to style them for a modern cinema audience and this is probably the best that could be expected. I'm not sure if the Silk Spectre has the legs for that outfit though.

Ten Beloved Characters, Ten Ignoble Deaths

7. Joss Whedon's ragtag crew of smugglers flew from TV to the big screen aboard their ship the Serenity (thanks in part to solid DVD sales for the original series), piloted by the ship's class clown, the irrepressible Hoban "Wash" Washburne. But he'll be left out of any sequels — though actor Alan Tudyk enjoys spreading rumors of those sequels anyway — as he takes a grappling hook through the chest, in a scene that would almost be funny if it weren't such a major bummer. Leave it to ruthless Joss Whedon to repay his rabid fans by killing off their most beloved character just before the climactic final scenes.

Proof positive that Whedon hates his fans.

Did you see their preferred ending for the Passion of the Christ... Pilate vs Christ with lightsabres!!!

Or that he actually has the balls to write more realistic stories where not everyone lives.

I was commenting more on the fact that he seems to favour the killing of characters he knows are firm fan favourites.

Maybe it was symbolic of the show getting canned?

Whoa. I was just thinking this morning, about two hours ago, what Jesus would do with a lightsaber...

Or maybe it gave the death a greater emotional impact. Unlike, say, a Star Wars ensign being killed, which has no real impact what-so-ever. Daring I say. It also leaves open a potential storyline of Zoe dealing with Wash's death.

I thought it was really shoddy, in fact I thought a number of characters in the film were treated pretty shoddily.

'Serenity' was very much the let down for me.

I would defintely lean more towards this side of the arguement.... Let's face it... when Wash dies, it is a total shock and you go through a similar feeling as to what the rest of the crew do... And you're totally on board with Zoe when she turns into a one woman killing machine...

Similar to when he knocked off Jenny Calendar and Giles' reaction...